This briefing brings to light another egregious aspect of the whole affair – the fact that U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers are heavily subsidizing the primary owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline project, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The briefing identifies how through their corporate structures as Master Limited Partnerships, key Dakota Access owners Energy Transfer Partners and Enbridge Energy Partners collectively avoided paying over $650 million in taxes in 2015. Additionally, federal pipeline regulations allow companies to charge customers for these taxes they never paid in the first place, leading to even higher subsidies. These are just two of the many subsidies enjoyed by the owners of Dakota Access

Dakota Access is a travesty for a long list of reasons, and its construction should be stopped immediately to protect land, water, native sovereignty, and our climate. But in addition, it’s high time to stop giving away billions of taxpayer dollars to fossil fuel companies.

We are people too and tired of all thinking they can run all over destroying our country without concern to all the people, not only will the be problem, for DOJ and the start of million of lawsuits that will break them all there will be justice of all

This pipeline is not and never has been solely an indigenous issue, this is a global issue, the immediate effect concerns between 2-4 states but the expansion and the threat all of these pipeline projects ensue bring compromise to all people and this planet as our water supplies dwindle rendering our food and land unsuitable for farm crop consumption. Lack of air quality kills our pollinators from being able to propagate grown produce. The chain of this massacre will create a global warfare for drinkable water and disease will run rampant. The circle of nature that big oil breaks today will be the rope that hangs us all tomorrow.